I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the iDRAMA Lab under the guidance of Dr. Jeremy Blackburn at the State University of New York, Binghamton. I have a master’s degree focused on AI-related research projects from Auburn University, Alabama. My industrial experience includes working as an iOS Software Engineer for 3+ years. Besides having three college degrees in Computer Science, I love teaching and mentoring.

Research Work

Computational Social Science, Network Science, AI/ML

• My research interest involves studying large-scale data from social media platforms like Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan by applying Statistical methods, NLP Techniques (LLM) and Computer vision.
• My most recent research focuses on developing an automated social media moderation system using open-source Llama 3.1 (LLM) models.
• I also work on understanding memes and videos that propagate misinformation using multimodal fusion techniques.
• Another direction in my research is detecting coordinated groups from social media platforms using Graph-algorithms (Social Networks) in an unsupervised fashion.

News

📚 – Research Papers 🏆 – Achievements 🎥 – Public Presentations 📸 – Media

📚 Sep 2024 –> Paper submitted to ICWSM ‘25

• (In-Submission 🥘) Understanding podcasts from Youtube and Rumble
  • Link: Podcast-Outcasts-Paper

🎥 June 2024 –> Presented Paper at ICWSM ‘24 @Buffalo, NY, USA

📚 May 2024 –> 101 Multilingual Aya-Dataset paper accepted to ACL

• (Accepted ✅) Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning
  • Lead contributor to process & release 513 million dataset on Huggingface Aya-Collection
  • Link: Aya-Paper

📚 Jan 2024 –> Two papers submitted to ICWSM ‘24

• (Accepted ✅) Large-scale dataset from Alternative platform
  • Link: iDRAMA-Scored-2024-Paper
• (Accepted ✅) Large-scale dataset of Podcasts from Rumble
  • Link: iDRAMA-Rumble-2024-Paper

🎥 OCT 2023 –> Presented Poster at SUNY-AI Symposium @Albany, NY, USA

• Detecting Extremist Symbols from Web-Images
  • Link: Extremism-Poster

📚 Oct 2023 –> Submitted paper to WWW ‘24

• (Rejected 🔴) Understanding community migration from Reddit to Alternative platforms

Aug 2023 –> Started contributing as Gujarati Language Ambassador for “Aya open-source multilingual project” by Cohere For AI (Cohere For AI: Aya-project)

📚 May 2023 –> Submitted paper to ICWSM ‘24

• From HODL to MOON: Understanding Crypto communities on Reddit
  • (In-Revision 🥘) Link: Crypto-Reddit-Community-Paper

🏆 DEC 2022 –> Ph.D. candidate now. 🥳

📸 SEP 2022 –> Media coverage in the USAToday for building a Computer vision model to detect Kekistani flag from 1 million 4chan images. Propoganda of digital age: How memes are weaponized to spread disinformation

SEP 2021 –> Joined a Ph.D. program at SUNY-Binghamton.

🎓 JULY 2021 –> Graduated with Master’s degree focused on AI from Auburn University, Alabama.